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Fish Oil Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., led by Emily White, Ph.D., a member of the public health sciences division, asked…

Studies and Analyses

Home Care Matches Hospital Care for Cystic Fibrosis Patients

The study was published online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.”We…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights: Understanding Proton Size and Its Impact

The proton – one of the universal building-blocks of all matter – is even smaller than had previously been assumed (Nature, 8 July 2010). This is the result…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking D-Ribose: The Key to Life’s Molecular Structure

D-Ribose is just a small molecule – but an extremely important one for us life forms. It is astounding that the crystal structure of ribose is not included…

Studies and Analyses

Study Calls for Natural Gas Pricing Reform to Facilitate Carbon Tax Policy

Lucas W. Davis, assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and co-author Erich Muehlegger, assistant professor of…

Automotive Engineering

Eye Movements and Sight Distance Reveal How Drivers Negotiate Winding Roads: New Study May Lead to In-Car Warning System

Alternatively, when drivers enter or maneuver through a right-bound curve, where they see less roadway ahead, they will spend more time looking at the tangent…

Studies and Analyses

Romantic Rejection Stimulates Areas of Brain Involved in Motivation, Reward and Addiction

The pain and anguish of rejection by a romantic partner may be the result of activity in parts of the brain associated with motivation, reward and addiction…

Life & Chemistry

Pinpoint Precision: Delivering a Biochemical Payload to One Cell

The team used precise electrical fields as “tweezers” to guide and place gold nanowires, each about one-two hundredth the size of a cell, on predetermined…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

ARS Study Eyes Egg Quality and Composition

ARS food technologist Deana Jones and her team in the Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit in Athens, Ga., found that, on average, there was no substantial…

Environmental Conservation

Using Ultrasound to Control Toxic Algal Blooms

In collaboration with water industry organisations including SA Water, the researchers are starting a three-year project to find the best process for using…

Physics & Astronomy

JILA Team Finds New Parallel Between Cold Gases and 'Hot' Superconductors

Described in Nature Physics,* the new research lends more support to the idea that JILA studies of superfluidity (flow with zero friction) in atomic gases may…

Physics & Astronomy

Novel Ion Trap with Optical Fiber Could Link Atoms and Light in Quantum Networks

Described in a forthcoming issue of Physical Review Letters,* the new device is a 1-millimeter-square ion trap with a built-in optical fiber. The authors use…

Technology Offerings

FMED – Fluid matrix authentic substance scent source – Test preparation for highly sensitive peroxide explosives

The FMED invention (FlüssigMatrix – EchtstoffDuftquelle)

describes a preparation of moderately volatile organic explosives (e.g. TATP) in a fluid matrix….

Medical Engineering

Robots Transform Thyroid Surgery Without Neck Incision

The thyroid, which sits just under the Adam's apple and controls the body's metabolic rate, is about the size of a kiwi. Benign and cancerous disease can more…

Environmental Conservation

Changing climate could alter meadows’ ecosystems

Diane Debinski has been studying the meadows in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Rocky Mountains since 1992. She has found that if the area's climate…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Communication Linked to Chronic Ear Infections

Interrupting or removing that communication could be key to curing these infections. Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center publish…

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